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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2024
34 tornado watches in 2024. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 34
- Busiest month
- April14 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 16, 20243 tornado watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Coffey, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Doniphan, Johnson and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 30 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:14 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:31 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Douglas and 14 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Marshall, Nemaha, Washington | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 11:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 43 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 28 more | 7 hr |
| May 1, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 11:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 26 more | 12 hr |
| May 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 19 more | 8 hr |
| May 6, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 11:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| May 20, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne | 7 hr |
| May 20, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 6 hr |
| May 21, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 13 more | 11 hr |
| May 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 23 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chautauqua and 22 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jun 28, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 30, 2:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Comanche, Cowley, Harper and 7 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 30, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 4, 1:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County12
- Crawford County12
- Bourbon County11
- Atchison County10
- Franklin County10
- Leavenworth County10
- Wyandotte County10
- Coffey County9
- Doniphan County9
- Douglas County9
- Jackson County9
- Jefferson County9
- Johnson County9
- Lyon County9
- Miami County9
- Osage County9
- Shawnee County9
- Wabaunsee County9
- Nemaha County9
- Allen County9
- Anderson County9
- Brown County9
- Chautauqua County9
- Elk County9
- Morris County8
- Pottawatomie County8
- Linn County8
- Woodson County8
- Neosho County8
- Wilson County8
- Geary County7
- Riley County7
- Marshall County7
- Chase County7
- Greenwood County7
- Marion County7
- Cowley County7
- Labette County7
- Montgomery County7
- Barber County6
65 more counties
- Comanche County6
- Pratt County6
- Washington County6
- Dickinson County5
- Barton County5
- Edwards County5
- Kiowa County5
- Pawnee County5
- Russell County5
- Stafford County5
- Butler County5
- Harper County5
- Harvey County5
- Sedgwick County5
- Sumner County5
- Clark County4
- Ellis County4
- Ellsworth County4
- Ford County4
- Hodgeman County4
- Lincoln County4
- Ness County4
- Norton County4
- Rice County4
- Rush County4
- Trego County4
- Republic County4
- Clay County4
- Kingman County4
- Reno County4
- Decatur County3
- Finney County3
- Gove County3
- Graham County3
- Gray County3
- Haskell County3
- Jewell County3
- Lane County3
- Meade County3
- Mitchell County3
- Osborne County3
- Rooks County3
- Seward County3
- Smith County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Cloud County3
- McPherson County3
- Ottawa County3
- Saline County3
- Phillips County2
- Sheridan County2
- Logan County2
- Rawlins County2
- Wichita County2
- Grant County2
- Kearny County2
- Scott County2
- Stevens County2
- Greeley County1
- Sherman County1
- Thomas County1
- Wallace County1
- Hamilton County1
- Morton County1
- Stanton County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.